Word: closer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...office of the director of the gymnasium and will be pleased to receive any member or officer of any of the athletic associations and confer with them on questions pertaining to athletics. In this way it is hoped that the committee and the students will be brought into closer relations and a better opportunity offered for exchange of ideas. We hope the students will make the best use of their opportunity and that their relations with the athletic committee will be attended with good results in the future...
...hope the team will take it good naturally if in conclusion we make a few personal criticisms. To begin at the head : Kimball drop-kicks goals beautifully, but ought to try to do it little quicker-perhaps by standing a little closer each day. In the Yale-Princeton game of last Year, Moffat would not have been able to do much of his phenomenal kicking if he had required so much time. Bemis, as quarterback, does not "discombobulate" the other side when they have the down quite as much as he might-se Twombly's play of last year...
...meeting was one which showed an intense interest in the present political campaign, but proved of more partisan than abstract value. We would recommend a closer adherence to the question in the future debates of the Union. The question selected for debate at the next meeting was, -"Resolved, That the best interests of the country require the success of the democratic party in the coming election...
...college tennis tournament this autumn promises to be closer and more interesting than in former years. S. Thorn and Knapp of Yale, J. Clarke, formerly Harvard, of the University of Pennsylvania, and Brinley of Trinity, make a formidable list of players. But, if Harvard has not the powerful incentives to organized team work that some colleges enjoy, she has long since shown her ability to win in anything that is a matter of individual work. With Sears, M. S., and Taylor, '86, we are sure of the tennis championship. Mr. Sears is head and shoulders above any player in this...
...devolves upon the senior class is a sad one. During the summer one of their number, W. A. Woodside, met with his death by drowning. It is sad to lose a classmate at any time, but particularly so during the Senior year when the donds of friendship are drawn closer together and the ties which bind us to our college life are more firmly united than ever before...